SO ENDS this second weekend on a fungal perspective of why sexual reproduction arose during evolution. Few kingdoms are as sexually diverse and plastic as fungi, and they serve as an extreme reference point for the relatively less plastic reproduction of animals and plants. Regardless, living creatures have devised an enormous varieties of methods to create viable progeny and perpetuate that all-important germline into the future, while limiting inbreeding and creating useful genes for adaptation while purging deleterious genes. No small task. View in LinkedIn